The main thrust of the article is that the increasing success of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle and the Google Books project are putting the squeeze on traditional printing presses, forcing them to confront many of the same demons as printed newspapers and magazines.

In addition to Amazon’s sizable online bookstore, Barnes and Noble (one of the nation’s largest booksellers) offers many new releases as digital downloads and is believed to be working on its own e-reader to compete with the likes of the Kindle and iPod Touch.

So, bookish readers, what do you think? This is too big a topic to be covered in a week of features, let alone one small brief, in part because it’s such a polarizing topic. Among peoples’ chief concerns are the ever-present shadows of DRM and oversight – Amazon caught a lot of flack earlier this year for removing several digital titles (including, ominously, George Orwell’s Animal Farm) from customers’ Kindles without their knowledge or permission.